Lucy Spoors
{{Short description|New Zealand rower (born 1990)}}
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{{use New Zealand English|date=October 2017}}
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| name = Lucy Spoors
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|12|24|df=y}}
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| country = New Zealand
| sport = Rowing
| event = Quadruple sculls, Coxless four, Eight
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| relatives = Phoebe Spoors (sister)
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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|Silver | 2020 Tokyo | Eight}}
{{MedalGold | 2024 Paris | Double sculls}}
{{MedalComp|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Ottensheim|Eight}}
{{MedalBronze|2017 Sarasota|Eight}}
{{MedalComp|World Championships (U23)}}
{{MedalBronze|2012 Trakai|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalComp|World Championships (junior)}}
{{MedalGold|2008 Linz|Coxless four}}
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Lucy Spoors (born 24 December 1990) is a New Zealand rower. She is a 2019 world champion winning the women's eight title at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.
Private life
Spoors was born in 1990. She received her secondary education at Christchurch Girls' High School{{cite news |title=Lone silver for NZ as Chinese flex muscles |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/1357/Lone-silver-for-NZ-as-Chinese-flex-muscles |access-date=9 October 2017 |work=The Press |date=31 January 2009}} and started rowing in 2005.{{cite web| title=Lucy Spoors |url= https://www.rowingnz.kiwi/Person?Action=Profile&Person_id=16305 |publisher=Rowing New Zealand |access-date=9 October 2017}} She has younger twin sisters, Grace and Phoebe (born 1993), who both took up rowing, too.{{cite news |last1=Leggat |first1=David |title=Sisterhood spurs on the rowing Spoors |url= https://www.newsroom.co.nz/lockerroom/sisterhood-spurs-on-the-rowing-spoors |access-date=19 July 2021 |work=Newsroom |date=14 June 2019}}
Rowing career
Her first international competition was at the 2007 World Rowing Junior Championships in Beijing, China, where her junior women's quad sculls team came sixth.{{cite web |title=(JW4x) Junior Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2007-world-junior-championships/junior-womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} At the 2008 World Rowing Junior Championships in Linz, Austria, she competed with the junior women's four and won gold.{{cite web |title=(JW4-) Junior Women's Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2008-world-championships/junior-womens-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} She transitioned to the U23 team for the 2009 season and competed with the U23 women's quad sculls; they came fourth at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, that year.{{cite web |title=(BW4x) U23 Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2009-under-23-world-rowing-championships/u23-womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} Spoors competed in the same boat class at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus, and the team came tenth that year.{{cite web |title=(BW4x) U23 Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2010-under-23-world-rowing-championships/u23-womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} Three months later, Spoors competed for the first time at elite level. The 2010 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand. Only four women's four team were competing, and the New Zealand squad came last.{{cite web |title=(W4-) Women's Four – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2010-world-championships/womens-four/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}}
In the following year, Spoors returned to the U23 level and at the 2011 World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the U23 women's quad sculls team came fourth.{{cite web |title=(BW4x) U23 Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2011-under-23-world-rowing-championships/u23-womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} The same boat class went to the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, and her team won a bronze medal.{{cite web |title=(BW4x) U23 Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2012-under-23-world-rowing-championships/u23-womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}}
Spoors made the selection to the women's elite team in 2014. In the women's quad sculls, the team came fifth at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands.{{cite web |title=(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2014-world-rowing-championships/womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} At the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France, the quad sculls team came sixth.{{cite web |title=(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2015-world-rowing-championships/womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}} To qualify the women's quadruple sculls for the 2016 Rio Olympics, the team had to achieve a top-two finish at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, but they came third.{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Ian |title=Three into two won't go for world champs as New Zealand rowing selection looms |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-newspapers/central-north-island/sport/sport-region-6459/77352634/Three-into-two-won-t-go-for-world-champs-as-New-Zealand-rowing-selection-looms |access-date=9 October 2017 |work=Stuff |date=3 March 2016}}{{cite news |title=Twigg qualifies for Rio, but heartbreak for other crews |url= http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/sport/304703/twigg-qualifies-for-rio,-but-heartbreak-for-other-crews |access-date=9 October 2017 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=25 May 2016}}{{cite web |title=(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2016-fisa-european-and-final-olympic-qualification-regatta/womens-quadruple-sculls/final/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=9 October 2017}}
She won a bronze medal with the New Zealand women's eight at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida.{{cite web |title=Lucy Spoors |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/30503/spoors-lucy |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140903192048/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/30503/spoors-lucy |url-status= dead |archive-date= 3 September 2014 |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=8 October 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing}}
- {{Olympics.com}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{NZOC}}
- [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/lucy-spoors_1927024 Lucy Spoors] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- {{Instagram}}
{{World champions – Women's eight}}
{{2020 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{2024 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{Olympic champions – Women's double sculls}}
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Category:New Zealand female rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
Category:People educated at Christchurch Girls' High School
Category:Rowers from Christchurch
Category:Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand
Category:Olympic rowers for New Zealand
Category:21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
Category:Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics